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Rivermont is an independent record label specializing in ragtime, jazz, and related musical styles. When a music is no longer performed, it is dead.

Rivermont Records was founded in 2004 to preserve and promote ragtime, jazz, and "hot dance" music. We believe that the music we feature is timeless and that it is best served by respecting the pioneers who created it a century ago while supporting today's musicians who continue to perform and innovate within its realm. Rivermont is unique in offering a diverse catalogue that features both reissue

s of vintage recordings as well as freshly-recorded discs by some of today's most talented ragtime and jazz musicians. If your collecting or listening interests tend to steer you primarily towards reissues of early recordings, why not try a CD or two from our series of contemprary recordings? We think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the current generation of performers, and your support will help to ensure a bright future for ragtime, jazz, and hot dance music in the twenty-first century. All Rivermont CDs are packaged with informative and entertaining booklets written by noted musicologists, historians, and the artists themselves. We hope that you will enjoy learning about the music as much as you enjoy listening to it. Our booklets are supplemented with rare photographs, sheet music covers, and in the case of our reissue series, complete discographical information for collectors. Please "Like" us and follow us on Facebook to see news about Rivermont releases and to receive special discounts. Thank you for your interest in Rivermont Records!

17/11/2025

100 years ago, Ralph Peer led a recording expedition to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. He set up OKeh's equipment atop the George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville and recorded a variety of regional musicians: fiddle and banjo solos, harmonica novelties, gospel songs, jazz and vaudeville numbers, mountain ballads, and more. It was the first commercial recording session in Appalachia, and the resulting 78s captured a fascinating blend of old and new. The resulting discs sold rather poorly and are quite rare today. Nevertheless, Peer was undeterred, and two years later, having moved to the Victor label, he led another expedition to Bristol that captured the first recordings by the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers. If those 1927 Bristol sessions represent the "Big Bang of country music," the fuse was lit two years earlier in Asheville.

We are pleased to present this first-ever compilation of selections from the 1925 Asheville sessions, restored directly from the original shellac discs. Available on Vinyl, CD, or Digital Download, the collection includes 28 tracks (84 minutes) of music and a substantial book by scholars Ted Olson and Tony Russell telling the story of the Asheville sessions, plus biographies of all performers, dozens of rare photographs, color reproductions of all 78 rpm labels, lyrics transcriptions, and more.

Copies have just arrived from the manufacturers, and we have begun shipping them out. Pick up your set today and explore the remarkable music and story of the 1925 Asheville Sessions: "Music from the Land of the Sky." https://rivermontrecords.com/products/1173

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04/07/2025

Something wicked this way comes! For Halloween 2025, we're delving into the mysterious and sinister world of "Nosferatu" to present an original piano score for the 1922 silent horror film, composed and played by the legendary Tom Roberts. (For many years, Tom was Leon Redbone's pianist and he was also resident pianist with Vince Giordano's Nighthawks for many years.) For this new score, Tom has drawn inspiration from Germanic music of the 19th century (Brahms, Schumann, and Schubert) along with Romani music to create the perfect aural portrait of one of cinema's most famous vampires. We're thrilled to present Tom's score in both 180-gram oxblood red vinyl and CD editions -- but we need your help to make it happen. Please stop by our Kickstarter page and preorder your copy today! Thank you! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomroberts/nosferatu-a-new-piano-score-by-tom-roberts

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